"He's not human; he's an empty space disguised…" — John Fowles
"He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human."
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John Fowles
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140 Quotes by John Fowles
John Fowles has 140 quotes on this site.
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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It…
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
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Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and…
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The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
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On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach…
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Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile:…
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Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing…
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now;…
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery…
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a…
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised…
— James Agee
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That…
— Sri Chinmoy
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work…
— Northrop Frye
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When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others,…
— Gerry Spence
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You can't tell a kid that it's time to exercise; that's a turn-off...you have to say 'Let's go to the…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in…
— J. D. Sedding
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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the…
— Thomas de Quincey
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Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
— Francis Picabia
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